The quick start guide needs to be updated. The brick directory should ideally be a sub-directory of a mount point (and not a mount point directory itself) for ease of administration. We recently added code to warn about this (and looks like the code check exposed a documentation bug which you just shared!) Avati On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:22 AM, John Smith <lbalbalba at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > Im trying to follow this guide to set up a simple cluster: > http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/QuickStart > > But when I issue this command : > gluster volume create glustervol01 replica 2 > 192.168.126.128:/export/brick1 192.168.126.129:/export/brick1 > > I get the following eror: > volume create: glustervol01: failed: The brick > 192.168.126.129:/export/brick1 is a mount point. Please create a > sub-directory under the mount point and use that as the brick > directory. Or use 'force' at the end of the command if you want to > override this behavior. > > Am I doing something wrong ? The guide tells you to 'mkdir -p > /export/brick1', and add '/dev/glusterfsvol/glusterfslv1 > /export/brick1 xfs defaults 1 2' to /etc/fstab. So yeah, > /exports/brick is a mount point. You just created it. I dont get it... > > > > - John Smith > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20130514/a9759a3b/attachment.html>
